A New York Sports Renaissance With John Jastremski. Plus, Kenan Thompson (Finally!)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons talks with new Ringer addition John Jastremski about New York sports including the start of (a full-length) baseball season, the competent New York Knicks, the juggernaut Brooklyn Nets, the upcoming NFL draft, the Jets and Sam Darnold, and Giants fans' hopes with Saquon Barkley's return. They also discuss the NCAA tournament heading into the Final Four and more (9:30). Then Bill is joined by actor and comedian Kenan Thompson to discuss his new NBC sitcom, 'Kenan'; getting into acting as a child; the revival of Kenan's hometown of Atlanta; some of his favorite moments from 'SNL'; and more (1:09:45). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know that CCC sabata and Ryan Ruko have a podcast together? Oh, yeah, it's called R2C2.
0:05.7	They've had it for a while and heading into this baseball season. It's where you want to be to find
0:10.4	CCC's thoughts on the Yankees, the Aela East baseball in general, plus they will sprinkle in
0:16.8	a crap load of basketball and football as well, specifically basketball. CCC loves basketball.
0:22.1	Ruko broadcast basketball. You can hear these guys go back and forth all the time on the R2C2
0:27.8	podcast only on the Ringer podcast network. We're also brought to you by the wringer.com as well as
0:33.1	the Ringer podcast network. Put up a new rewatchables on Monday, commando, Misha, Serrano, Kyle Brant,
0:41.1	and we have another one coming later this week. We did the 48th anniversary of thief, the first ever
0:46.2	theatrical Michael Mann movie. It's a classic Misha on fantasy Chris Ryan. Get ready for that one.
0:52.1	It's coming up Thursday night and speaking of Special Interest podcast, Ryan Rosillo did a special
0:59.0	two-part series about the ABA. He talked to people like Julius Irving and Bob Costas. If you're
1:05.1	a basketball, they're highly recommend this one. Good deep dive, a lot of good stories and a league that
1:12.0	when I was living in Boston, they weren't even televised in ABA games. I don't even think I had
1:18.1	seen an ABA team until one of them came to the garden after the Boston Garden. I only knew
1:24.6	they had a basketball card. I've always been fascinated by that league. It's a really fun
1:28.8	couple of podcasts. Check that one out. A little bit later in this podcast, we talked to
1:34.8	Johnny Stremsky, who has a new podcast launching on the Ringer on Sunday night called New York, New
1:40.0	York, and all New York sports podcasts. We're going to talk about the state of New York sports with
1:43.8	him. And Kenan Thompson, the long-time mess in Elstar, who has somehow never been on this podcast.
1:49.6	We're going to talk to him as well. Before we get to all that baseball opening day, it's coming.
1:57.5	I'm going to give you three minutes on why I am secretly excited for this Red Sox season.
2:03.8	One is that I was a baseball widow last year. I gave up the Boogie Betz trade just killed me.
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